Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

Type

Book

Authors

Ina May Gaskin

ISBN 10

1583229272

ISBN 13

9781583229279

Tags

Pregnancy & Childbirth, General, Reference, Midwifery, Issues, Trends & Roles, Women's Health, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Women's Studies

Description

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. - from Amzon

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